In this gripping chronicle of America\'s struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication.
General George Washington put it best when he said that the American Victory was "little short of a standing miracle.".
As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered.
In this gripping chronicle of America\'s struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication